63 minutes ago Six huge life choices that could hit your pension pot by up to £1 million

A number of factors can hit your pension pot by up to £1 million over your lifetime

Economics

72 minutes ago Joe Biden commutes sentences of 37 out of 40 federal death row inmates

The clemency action applies to all federal death row inmates except three convicted of terrorism or hate-motivated mass murderJoe Biden has commuted the sentences of 37 out of 40 federal death row inmates, changing their punishment to life imprisonment without parole.The decision follows month of pressure from campaigners who warned that president-elect Donald Trump backs the death penalty and restarted federal executions during his first term after a pause of nearly two decades. Continue reading...

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72 minutes ago ‘Perfect paternalistic nonsense’: why Father of the Bride is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers revealing their favourite mood-lifting films is an ode to the 1991 comedy in which Steve Martin is a farcically over-protective fatherI should hate this film. A possessive father loses the plot at the notion that his 22-year-old daughter – a sophisticated architecture student just back from a semester in Rome – is engaged to a man he hasn’t met. After she tells him the news at dinner, we see her saying it a second time through his eyes, as a seven-year-old. When the groom arrives, dad almost has an aneurysm at him daring to put his hand on her leg, and starts watching America’s Most Wanted every night looking for his face. He goes so cuckoo bananas over the prospect of their wedding that he loses it at the supermarket and briefly ends up in jail. “I was no longer the man in my little girl’s life,” he rues. It is paternalistic nonsense, and it is perfect.I first watched the 1991 remake of Father of the Bride (FOTB) as a kid because it is my dad’s f...

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72 minutes ago ‘If we die, we die together’: 20 years after the Boxing Day tsunami, are we better prepared?

Hundreds of thousands of people were killed in Aceh in 2004. Now warning systems are in place, but some feel more could be doneIt was just before 8am on Sunday 26 December 2004 when the earthquake struck. Abdul Rahem, 47, a fisher, was strolling along the beach, enjoying the morning breeze near to his home in Lam Awe, a sleepy fishing village on the coast of Aceh in Indonesia. He retreated to paddy fields when the violent shaking and swinging stopped. But it wasn’t until he heard the cries of neighbours that he realised something was seriously wrong. People were shouting: “The water is coming.”Rahem raced home to get his elderly father, and supported him as they tried to flee along the broken road, which had been twisted and torn by the quake. His father urged him to go ahead and leave him, but Rahem refused. “I said, ‘No, no, no, if we die, we die together.’” Continue reading...

Events

73 minutes ago Mum in hysterics at daughter's role in Christmas play as parents suggest clever design

An author took to Twitter, now known as X, to share the hilarious casting her daughter received in her school's nativity. It left many people in stitches, as well as the mum herself

Politics

74 minutes ago Premier League supercomputer predicts final table with Man Utd and Arsenal enduring misery

Life under Ruben Amorim is not expected to get better quickly for Manchester United with the Red Devils predicted to finishin the bottom half of the Premier League for the first time

Sport

76 minutes ago Kyle Walker is to spend Christmas with estranged wife Annie Kilner and their children amid Lauryn Goodman drama, but the pair are NOT 'fully reconciled', reveals ALISON BOSHOFF

The 34-year-old Man City player will be there for Christmas Day, but it can be revealed that the couple are not fully reconciled.

Society

78 minutes ago 'I cancelled Christmas booking at Disney World after girlfriend's strange demand'

A man was accused of "ruining Christmas" when he changed his family's plans to go to Disney World. However, he claims he had good reason for making the decision

Politics

81 minutes ago Think of your local food bank this Christmas – Emma Revie, Chief Executive of Trussell

Anti-poverty charity, Trussell, is calling on you to help support people facing hunger this winter

Politics

84 minutes ago Kremlin denies Assad's British wife is trying to divorce the fallen dictator and return to the UK after being 'confined to Moscow with property assets frozen'

Asma al-Assad, 49, is currently exiled in Moscow with the toppled dictator, having left behind their lives of luxury in Syria. The former first lady is said to be dissatisfied with her life under the guard of Putin.

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